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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this sense, the word "integration"--thrown around by the College and House Masters as emblematic of a healthy House community--is both vague and misleading. To expect students to abandon their self-created social circles for the companionship of several hundred random residents is both silly and simple-minded. Social circles of varying sizes are an inevitable part of House and campus life. Eliminate them in the form of blocking and they will merely recreate themselves after subsequent rounds of the yarn game...

Author: By Richard S. Lee, | Title: Untangling Our Houses | 9/22/1999 | See Source »

...said battles when Juanita Broaddrick gave interviews last year in which she said that then Governor Bill Clinton had forced himself on her, and the controversy lasted barely 1 1/2 news cycles. But even as I see the word quagmire forming in my brain, I realize we can't abandon the field. As a former Connecticut state legislator and two-time Democratic nominee for Congress, Niedermeier can probably take care of herself. But there are plenty of women out there with fewer resources who can't. Just last week the women at two Ford Motor Co. plants finally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexual Harassment, Chapter 999 | 9/20/1999 | See Source »

...deserves to be. Walsh's colleagues have made a fundamental mistake in relying mainly on statute to force the removal. Walsh's guilt and weight would surely break the scales of Justice--if the City Council really wants to get rid of this particular dead weight, it should abandon statutes and try a crane...

Author: By Brad EDWARD White, | Title: DARTBOARD | 9/4/1999 | See Source »

Quincy House will soon become the latest undergraduate house to abandon metal keys for plastic card keys. And residents have mixed feelings about the new technology...

Author: By Emil J. Kiehne, | Title: Quincy Gets New Card Key System | 9/4/1999 | See Source »

...could make the Kosovo peacekeeping mission a political nightmare for NATO. Russian defense and foreign ministry statements warned last Friday that Moscow may consider pulling out of KFOR. But that wouldn?t be the easy victory the KLA hard-liners might imagine, because while Russia may have threatened to abandon its torturously negotiated relationship with the NATO-led peacekeeping command structure, it has no intention of quitting Kosovo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kosovo Threatens to Blow Up in NATO's Face | 8/23/1999 | See Source »

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